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Aerospace co put workers at risk of developing HAVS for 22 years
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Aerospace co put workers at risk of developing HAVS for 22 years
Wholesaler fined £25k over employee’s unprotected skylight fall
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Wholesaler fined £25k over employee’s unprotected skylight fall
MPs recommend extending FFI to local authority inspectors
Regulation/Enforcement
MPs recommend extending FFI to local authority inspectors

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Regulation/Enforcement
Directors blame Ikon’s collapse on bad publicity from HSE death investigation

The uncertainty and “adverse publicity” caused by an ongoing Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation into the death of a worker were blamed by its directors for the collapse of Ikon Construction, according to a report by the firm’s administrator. The Bristol-based construction firm went into administration on 17 May.
Road safety
Distracted bus driver handed prison sentence for multiple passenger injuries

A bus driver who was reading a time duty card while speeding on a stretch of the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway in Cambridge has been sentenced to 12 weeks’ imprisonment after he lost control of the vehicle, injuring five passengers. The sentence has been suspended for 12 months and the driver must also pay £2,000 costs.
Stress
Indonesian businesses told to extend protection to stressed workers

Indonesian employers must provide practical support to minimise employee stress under a new ministerial regulation, which extends safety and health protection to workers.
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Skills
Task analysis
Taken to task

Before risk assessing a piece of work you have to define its scope. We look at how to do that while avoiding ‘analysis paralysis’. 
Noise
Case study
Formula E Operations: Circuit testing

We talk to the race organiser’s senior OSH manager about managing the world’s first fully electric car championship. 
Ergonomics
Manual handling
The train drain

We look at the scientific evidence underpinning the HSE’s advice that training alone is unlikely to reduce manual handling risk.
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key leadership lessons from Peter F Drucker’s The Effective Executive

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Your evacuation plan – not just necessary, compulsory
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JSP AlphaBloc® Space Saving Barrier
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JSP AlphaBloc® space saving barrier

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Leadership
Is your organisation prepared to manage health and safety effectively in a rapidly changing environment?

Many important changes lay ahead for businesses and workers in the UK. Technology, Brexit, new standards, deregulation and many more of these changes will be addressed at the British Safety Council’s 10th Annual Conference: Health and Safety in Uncertain Times.
Employee involvement
Bull strengthens European presence with university win

Bull Products, a manufacturer of life-saving fire protection equipment, has secured another major European contract with the Leiden University in Holland.
Chemicals
New software solution is launched to improve safety, efficiency and profitability in the chemicals industry

New web-based system – SitePlanner - has been launched by SeaRoc Group, innovative software company and leaders in developing management systems for the renewable energy sector.  
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